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social mobility. In the old days a
butcher’s son would grow to be
a butcher and a plumber’s son a
plumber. Nowadays the butcher
dreams that his son may become
j. teacher or a physician. Through
education, this is now part of the
I.-raeli cultural pattern. It is now-
possible.”
Israel’s post elementary school
population, ranging from the age
of 14 to 18, is about 180,000. Of
the total about 102,000 are attend
ing secondary schools of all kinds
while some 40,000 are enrolled as
apprentices in trade and vocational
schools and with private individ
uals and firms. About 20,000 are re-
T-eiving no further education for a
multiplicity of reasons, such as
parental indifference, delinquency,
mental disturbances and lack of
motivation. Mr. Shmueli did not
account for the rest but only—as
my notebook indicates—because I
did not ask him the question.
One of the chief problems is
ihe big turn-over of teachers in
some of the country’s development
ureas. Many teachers are often
lured away from the profession by
better offers and, in addition,
there is the attrition from
marriage of women teachers. Israel
has a teaching cadre of about 25,-
000 men and women, twenty-
thousand of them teaching in pri
mary schools and the rest in
secondary schools. The combined
school population, both elemen
tary and secondary, is 550,000.
To meet the teacher problem.
Israel has 25 teachers colleges
apart from in service training
facilities. The biggest problem,
however, is how to attract com
petent recruits for the field of
education.
■'What are they teaching the
oung in the secondary schools?”
I asked knowing quite well wiiat
the answer would be. "Well." re
plied Mr. Shmueli, "I would say
we give them an education in the
fundamentals essential to highe
education and adjustment to li
ing, but we do more—we
them broad horizons in J
education by teaching them aWTut
the Talmud, Jewish heritage, Jew
ish history, Jewish consciousness
and Jewish life and creativity in
the Diaspora of all lands.” The
purpose of these courses, he said,
is to implant the Jewish youth of
Israel not alone with a knowledge
of the broad vist&s of Jewish life
a broad but to create a link of
meaningful potential for the future
with all Jewries. \
Mr. Shmueli was brought v to
Israel by his Zionist parents from
Greece when he was six years old,
and he has been interested in edu
cation since the age of sixteen,
when he taught handicapped chil
dren. Right now, he told us, he
was looking forward to the open
ing this September of seven of the
thirteen Israel Education Fund
schools now under construction in
his country. His larger hope, he
repeated, is "a wide network of
schools that will cover the entire
land."
On parting I asked him whether
there was much unrest and tension
; ntong the youth in Israel—seem
ingly a universal phenomenon
these days—and he replied youth
b the same all over the world but
that there appeared to be less
delinquency, less tension and less
rebelliousness among the youth in
Israel because the country is too
busy founding a new society.
Whatever juvenile delinquency
exists, he said, is to be found in
areas "where towns grow up over
night" and children struggle with
the twin problem of identification
and adjustment. There are many
things to fear in the world of
today, he remarked with a mean
ingful smile, but not the youth
m it- striving for expression, for
i ecognition.
PROBLEMS OF AN EDITOR
Problems of an editor. On some Sunday evenings a consci
entious Jewish editor must dance from banquet to banquet, from
speech to speech until even the dervish can whirl no faster.
Then, with God’s help, the paper is put together and the
page proofs come out, a kreeht: (a sigh) can be heard from
Glendale to Jerusalem. All seems well- But after most minute
cheeking of copy, the paper is printed, and then — all (censored)
breaks loose.
Once we had a headline: "Welfare Drive is lunched!"
Another Jewish newspaper printed a caption under a picture
J community leaders: “Communist leaders coaler . .
So naturally, when Harry Herzikoff was appointed to an
important welfare post — our headline last week declared lofti
ly: ’’Herzikoff Is Anointed.”
And on the same page, a story telling of the passing of be
loved community leader, Chaim Shapiro, had the following
headline: “Claim Shapiro Is Dead."
It’s maybe hard to be a Jew. But positive it's more harder
he a Jewish editor. Nebach!
—Reprinted from the Heritage Jewish Press
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